Democratic Primary Board election returns signed by Alvin York as Chairman of the Democratic Primary Board of Fentress County. The return features the primary votes for Horton and Gwinn for Governor; Dodson, Hull, and Todd for U.S. Senator (long...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. Craighead refers to the mock elections and celebrations that blacks held in Nashville during the 1864 presidential election.. Actual elections were held that year in occupied...

Circular to members of the General Assembly.
Knoxville 4th July 1796.
Sir
I have received information from the Honorable Messrs. Blount and Cocke; That Tennessee is by and act of Congress admitted as a member State of the Union.
By this act we...

One photograph, two clippings, one postcard, and one envelope on page. Top left: Kathrine [illeg.] at the Leven Oaks Hotel. Top right: Newspaper clipping about Alfred's brother David considering challenging Gov. Albert H. Roberts in the Democratic...

Certificate of election for Andrew Johnson as Representative to the 21st General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, elected August 1835, jointly representing the counties of Greene and Washington. The document is signed by the two county sheriffs...

French writes of a feeling of sadness and the long and terrible strain caused by the war. The 1864 presidential election is very much on her mind. She wants to leave the country if Abe and Andy are elected. All the things from Beersheba Springs...

French writes of a feeling of sadness and the long and terrible strain caused by the war. The 1864 presidential election is very much on her mind. She wants to leave the country if Abe and Andy are elected. All the things from Beersheba Springs...

French writes of a feeling of sadness and the long and terrible strain caused by the war. The 1864 presidential election is very much on her mind. She wants to leave the country if Abe and Andy are elected. All the things from Beersheba Springs...

After a stormy night French is grateful for shelter, warmth and children that are well. However, she is still preoccupied with the 1864 presidential election. On the home front she is cutting out clothing, making comforts, shirts and has apple...

1864 presidential election is over & LV is surprised that there is no hue & cry over the election either for or against. She received a letter from Lide. She & family spent the summer at Mackinaw & Cheboygan & returned to Memphis in October. Col....

1865 presidential election is over & LV is surprised that there is no hue & cry over the election either for or against. She received a letter from Lide. She & family spent the summer at Mackinaw & Cheboygan & returned to Memphis in October. Col....

L.V.F. writes thatYankees intended to burn up this end of town because it was illuminated when Forrest brought the prisoners up from Murfreesboro. The illumination was because Gen. Forrest had requested that the citizens have water set out all...

Letter from A. C. Montgomery to G. R. Rutledge describing status of business in Maryville, local elections resulting in the election of "Union men," the outcomes of battles involving Sterling Price, the death of Benjamin McCulloch, and the status...

Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...

Six-page letter to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville, Elisha W. Harris writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of attending a local political meeting. He details the zest the crowd displays for politics and the presidential...